We arrived back in Australia safely and were looking forward to slipping back into the Australian life style.
Our first stop was Adelaide as that was where we were spending Christmas.
It didn't take Paige long to find things to do, from riding Diesel the horse (Auntie Jacqui's horse), helping her Pa (John) brew his home made beer, making cakes and getting to know her new cousin Emily. Paige was making the best of being on holidays. For me and Ben, outings to the local supermarket was met with "There is to much choice, which one do I choose". Being able to do a one stop shop for food items I don't think will ever become boring again. All those friends still overseas will know what I mean.
Eating has been one of my favorite things to do since being back, I now think I have eaten everything on my imaginary list, my waist line isn't thanking me one bit.
My birthday was spent hanging out and trying to keep out of the kitchen as Paige and her Grandma (Margie) were trying to make the surprise chocolate birthday cake, so I think I acted surprised enough for Paige when she brought the cake to the table. My birthday dinner was spent down by the beach with Ben feasting on seafood which was very yummy and watching the sunset very romantic. "Who said romance was dead?".
Our first stop was Adelaide as that was where we were spending Christmas.
It didn't take Paige long to find things to do, from riding Diesel the horse (Auntie Jacqui's horse), helping her Pa (John) brew his home made beer, making cakes and getting to know her new cousin Emily. Paige was making the best of being on holidays. For me and Ben, outings to the local supermarket was met with "There is to much choice, which one do I choose". Being able to do a one stop shop for food items I don't think will ever become boring again. All those friends still overseas will know what I mean.
Eating has been one of my favorite things to do since being back, I now think I have eaten everything on my imaginary list, my waist line isn't thanking me one bit.
My birthday was spent hanging out and trying to keep out of the kitchen as Paige and her Grandma (Margie) were trying to make the surprise chocolate birthday cake, so I think I acted surprised enough for Paige when she brought the cake to the table. My birthday dinner was spent down by the beach with Ben feasting on seafood which was very yummy and watching the sunset very romantic. "Who said romance was dead?".
Picture: Paige helping Bernadette blow out candles
Picture: Paige riding Diesel the horse
Picture: Paige helping her Pa (John) make home brew beerChristmas Day started off quite late, Paige had a really good sleep in so when she finally woke thanks to her cousin Emily jumping on her with Uncle Tom's help, Paige found her present left by Santa. The funniest thing was that she was surprised that Santa had knocked over a chair and that was the topic of conversation for the whole day. It was hard to believe it was only a year ago we where in Mongolia spending Christmas Day with friends. How time flies. Its been a while since we have been able to have Christmas Day with some of our family so with being back in Australia, good food, good weather and being around family you could say it was just perfect.
Picture: Paige opening some of her Christmas presents with Ben trying to get the packaging off
Picture: The Family enjoying Christmas dinner
Picture: Paige with Spice the dog
Picture: Paige and Emily
Picture: Ben taking it easy after Christmas dinnerWith Christmas Day over we had a chance to take in a couple of outing where we visited the Adelaide Zoo and Cleland Wildlife Park, two places we had never been so you could say we played tourist. Paige enjoyed seeing all the animals but she was surprised that there where no elephants at the zoo as was I. During our visit to the Wild Life Park Paige got to pat one of the local kolas she loved how soft it was. As we had being staying up in the Adelaide Hills with Paige's Grandma and Pa Paige had seen a number of koalas in the trees so this was the first time she was able to get close enough to pat one which I am sure was one of the highlights of her visit.
Picture: Paige patting a kola at the Wild Life ParkIt was such a nice start to our adventure back in Australia, we are looking forward to getting to Perth to find our feet and a place we can call home. It will be nice to say those words once again "There is no place like home"...........................
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